Peter Abraham - C++ Reactive Programming: Design concurrent and asynchronous applications using the RxCpp library and Modern C++17

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Praseed Pai has been working in the software industry for the last 25 years, starting his career as a MS-DOS systems programmer using ANSI C. He has been actively involved in developing large-scale, cross-platform, native code-based systems using C++ on Windows, GNU Linux, and macOS X. He has experience in COM+ and CORBA programming using C++. In the last decade, he has worked with Java- and .NET-based systems.

He is the primary implementer of the SLANG4.net compilation system, which has been ported to C++ with an LLVM backend. He coauthored .NET Design Patterns, by Packt Publishing.

Peter Abraham has been a performance fanatic and a C/C++ programming language enthusiast right from his college days, where he excelled in Microsoft Windows programming and GNU Linux programming. He garnered experience in working with CUDA, image processing, and computer graphics programs by virtue of working with companies such as Quest Global, Siemens, and Tektronics.

Peter has been eagerly following the C++ standard and RxCpp libraries as part of his profession. He has worked with cross-platform GUI toolkits such as Qt, WxWidgets, and FOX toolkit.

Sumant Tambe is a software engineer, researcher, open source contributor, blogger, speaker, author, and gamer. He is experienced in using Modern C++, Kafka, data distribution service, reactive programming, and stream processing to solve new problems in big data and industrial IoT.

He has authored C++ Truths blog and the More C++ Idioms wikibook. He shares his learnings on his blog, and at local code camps, meetups, and conferences. He has been a recipient of the Microsoft MVP Award in development technologies for 5 years. He has a PhD in computer science from Vanderbilt University.

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This book will help you learn how to implement the reactive programming paradigm with C++ and build asynchronous and concurrent applications. The book includes real-world problems that you will solve with the reactive programming model. It highlights the way event processing has evolved in the programming world. You will learn about language-level concurrency in C++ and functional reactive programming. Constructs in functional programming and object-oriented programming will enable you to write efficient programs. After this, you will learn about microservices in C++ and create your custom operators for RxCpp.

If you're a C++ developer interested in using reactive programming to build asynchronous and concurrent applications, you'll find this book extremely useful. This book doesn't assume any previous knowledge of reactive programming.

, Reactive Programming Model Overview and History , introduces some key data structures of the Rx programming model. It also covers GUI event handling, an overview of reactive programming, and an implementation of GUI versions of different interfaces on top of MFC.

, A Tour of Modern C++ and its Key Idioms, covers C++ features, type inference, variadic templates, rvalue references and move semantics, lambda functions, elementary functional programming, pipeable operators, and implementation of iterators and observers.

, Language-Level Concurrency and Parallelism in C++ , discusses the threading library available in the C++ standard. You will learn how to launch and manage a thread, and discuss different aspects of the threading library. This chapter lays a good foundation for concurrency support introduced in Modern C++.

, Asynchronous and Lock-Free Programming in C++, discusses the facilities provided by the standard library for writing task-based parallelism. It also discusses the new multithreading-aware memory model that is available with the Modern C++ language.